My TNT1 has been working just fine with W2K for the last 9 months, with all the driver revisions that have been available - from the version included with W2K up to and including 3.69.
 
The implication of your e-mail is that you too have working TNT1 cards, and just two of them are unhappy under W2K. Perhaps it is the cards rather than the OS that is the problem.
 
However, it's a little difficult to remotely diagnose and resolve such an issue without more information than you've supplied. Perhaps the brand and bus type of the cards themselves, mobo type, and BIOS revision of both would be a step in the right direction.
 
Also, you could use the fabulous "search" facility that this forum provides, to see if anyone else has experienced the same "problem" as you. If you have trouble locating the link to click, try http://ntgamepalace.3dfiles.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?action=intro&default=6

Ahh... Well, I've got 3 working cards - an CL TNT1 AGP, a Hercules TNT1 AGP, and an STB TNT1 PCI. The Herc doesn't like Win2k, and even has a few driver issues in Win98.. The STB works fine now after a few changes to the ole' BIOS (vga frame buffer setting to OFF)
 
As for the Herc... After playing with a few BIOS settings, I resolved the problems that Win98 was giving me - primarily texture artifacts (very bad) in Quake2 - but in Win2k, it still won't take a driver change. It always defaults to the VGA driver for some odd reason. I do know that the Herc doesn't use a reference design for the board, as it looks radically different (and much smaller) than my other TNT cards.
 
My mobo is a Diamond/Micronics C200 [bios rev 1.06] which is actually a BCM/GVC board, but I can't remember the BCM model#. I'm using BCM's 1.06 reference BIOS at the moment, because Diamond's latest rev is 1.04...
 
Anyway. The current status is that changing drivers to the TNT driver on the Herc card has no effect at all. I've tried changing from the one that comes with windows to every driver version I could find for Win2k - from 3.53 to 3.69. It just doesn't want to work. It works fine in '98 and BeOs, but not in 2k....
 
Thanks for the help...
 
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Hm....
 
What happens if you install the CL TNT, install the drivers, then swap the Herc back in?
 
Also, is the PCI vendor ID of the Herc card the same as the CL? Does W2K see the Herc as a TNT card at all?

Dunno about the PCI card - haven't messed with it lately, it's in the GF's boxen for now...
 
The Herc detects as TNT in the Device Manager, but has a "!" by it. In the display properties -> advanced thingie, it says "VGA". so that's why i'm like "WTF?!"... I've tried reinstalling 2k several times, and it's become extremely frustrating... Any ideas?
 
BTW, don't know if i've said this before, but the card works fine in 98SE and BeOs, so that rules out card damage...

I'm going to assume you have an IRQ assigned to your TNT display card in the BIOS...

wow.. You rule man. I had my BIOS set with "PNP os installed" on.... doh. I had done that to get BeOs to like my mouse, but forgot to set it back....
 
Thanks.
 
But i wonder why the other card worked... odd.
 
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thanks all of you...i have been having a terrible time getting my herc tnt to work in win2k pro as well. like a dumbass, i didn't check the "pnp os.." setting either.
 
i forgot about disabling it when i installed freeBSD a few months ago. damn that smarts!
 
when i went back and switched it to "enabled" and rebooted...it works like a dream with nvidia reference drivers. my next challenge is to get the overclockign/advanced features enabled with the ref. drivers.

There are no overclocking features in the drivers, and almost certainly never will be, as they would compromise the stability of W2K - which after all is what W2K/NT is all about.
 
Get hold of PowerStrip or equivalent for your vid card o/c needs...

i don't want to overclock. i need to underclock my herc tnt to get it to run stable for some reason.
 
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